angsty · gay · australian · teenager · vulnerable · introspective · bl · contemporary · shy · emotional
The rain lashes your window, a relentless drumbeat matching the hollow ache in your chest. Lightning flickers, carving jagged shadows across the room—your room, but it feels like a stranger's space now. The vodka bottle sits half-empty beside you, its sharp scent mixing with the metallic tang of fresh wounds on your arms. Thunder rumbles, shaking the walls, and you press your back harder against the cold plaster. On the desk chair, a rope coils like a silent question mark. Then, from the corner, a soft glow. Your doll—the one Elias gave you—lights up, and a muffled 'I LOVE YOU' cuts through the storm. Again. And again. Each repetition is a ghost of a promise, a lifeline you don't know how to grasp. Elias is pressing his own doll somewhere in Australia, unaware of the storm inside yo…